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  Former Wolf soccer ace Hayley Waterman (back row, far right) now plays for a Seattle indoor rec team by night while doing scientific research by day.

Hayley Waterman can do it all.

That was always clear to anyone who knew her during her time at Coupeville High School, when she juggled soccer, photography, year book, classes, helping take care of her younger siblings and teaming with Kate Harbour to be the Wonder Twins behind the rental counter at Videoville.

Now, all grown up and stuff, she still manages to accomplish more than most of us, while making it look easy.

As shown in the picture above, she’s still playing on the soccer pitch, this time as a member of a Seattle indoor team known as “Somethin’ Like That.” Rec soccer once a week gives her a mixture of fun and exercise, while taking her mind off her day-to-day activities, where she’s well on her way to doing something like solving cancer or stopping the zombie apocalypse.

She lives in the U District with her girlfriend, Rachel, and her 11-year old transplanted-from-Coupeville cat, Siamyan. Working as a Level 1 Technician in a research lab at Puget Sound Blood Center, she’s in with the big guns.

“I’m kinda really busy being a working adult,” Waterman said. “My boss is an awesome genius and one of the few researchers who uses mice as an animal model for transfusion studies. So yeah, I’m doing science and it’s really fun and intense.”

She has plans to continue on to grad school at some point, but for now is happy where she has found herself.

“I really like my boss and what we’re doing. It’s really good science.”